Word: seven-year-old
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...standing in the crowd on the steps of a building, just watching-not in any official capacity, and unrecognized. But one partisan saw me, rushed out of line and up the steps to greet me. A little seven-year-old girl watched wide-eyed and decided that this was an important occasion that demanded formality. So she drew herself up very straight and gave me and the partisans a perfect Fascist salute...
Winston Churchill received tributes by the hundreds† and presents by the score on his 73rd birthday. Among the presents: a bold seascape in oil by seven-year-old Grandson Winston II, whose art teacher is his grandfather. Winston II explained to the inquiring press why he hadn't yet done a portrait of his grandfather: "He wouldn't keep still...
...Chester, Pa., an interested visitor to the Freedom Train was Colin Kelly III, son of a hero father, now a redheaded seven-year-old. He stared at the historical document which most concerned him: Franklin Roosevelt's recommendation that he be appointed to West Point...
Actor-Producer Orson Welles's troubles with his seven-year-old cinema Citizen Kane (which William Randolph Hearst refused to advertise in his papers) were still following him. Filed in a Manhattan court by Biographer Ferdinand Lundberg: a suit for damages (amount unspecified), charging that Wonder Boy Welles had copped the idea from Biographer Lundberg's Imperial Hearst...
There are 1,500,000 civil servants in France and most of them are underpaid. Handsome Pierre Houdard, police commissioner of suburban St.-Cloud, considered himself especially underpaid after he met Betty Coujean. When Betty became his mistress, and Pierre had to support his wife, seven-year-old son and Betty on 13,000 francs ($108) a month, that settled it. Betty, the wife of a racketeer Pierre had put in jail, showed Pierre how he could cover up for a ring of automobile thieves, and make lots of francs...